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A61677	A congregational church is a catholike visible church, or, An examination of M. Hudson his vindication concerning the integrality of the catholike visible church wherein also satisfaction is given to what M. Cawdrey writes touching that subject, in his review of M. Hooker's Survey of church discipline / by Samuel Stone ...	Stone, Samuel, 1602-1663.; Mather, Samuel, 1626-1671.; Cotton, John, 1584-1652.	1652 (1652)	Wing S5734; ESTC R13023	44,012	51

is an entire Ecclesiasticall body politick Therefore Boston Church containeth officers and members This Argumentation is a genere ad speciem An entire Ecclesiastical body politick is the Genus and Boston Church the species This may serve to answer that Argument which Mr Hudson p. 84. 85 86. useth to prove that the Church Catholike is an integral taken from the several appellations which are given to the Church Catholike in scripture It is called a body a kingdom a tabernacle a city an army a sheepfold a wheat field a barn-floor a drag-net a loaf of bread Now all these saith M. Hudson p. 86. and many more appellations have no analogie to a genus but to an Integrum I answer that those and such appellations are firstly and properly appellations of an integrum having Analogie to Totum integrale But this totum integrale is species specialissima or every individuall Church being species specialissima is also an integrum and containeth members and the genus comprehending all his species under him it comprehends the individualls with all their members under it or within it self Hence those appellations which are given to an individual Church are given to the Church in General Quicquid affirmatur negatur de specie etiam affirmatur negatur de genere particulariter Et quicquid essentiale affirmatur negatur de genere affirmatur etiam negatur de specie If a Church be a body then this or that individual Church is a body and all the members of it are {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} one and the same body of one and the same Corporation A Church is a bodie Boston corgregation is a Church Therefore Boston congregation is a bodie Mr. Husdon p. 84. saith that a Genus●s no body Ans. Yet a body or Integrum considered in G●nere is Genus Mr Hooker p. 85. doth not say that a Genus is a body and the particular species are ●tly joyned together and compacted by that which every joynt supplyeth as Mr Hudson insinuates But Mr Hooker p. 268. affirmeth that the particular members of a congregation are compacted together and where there are many particular Churches there is Totum genericum existens I might say the like of the other appellations A Church is a Kingdom Tabernacle Temple City c. Boston corgregation is a Church Therefore Boston cong●egation is a Kingdom Tabernacle Temple Citie c. We have heard of the rules concerning Genus we now proceed to the application of those rules to the question in hand where we shall first return answer to Mr Hudson his Arguments Secondly propound reasons tending to prove that a congregational Church is a Catholike Church CHAPTER IIII. Containing an answer to Mr Hudson his Arguments propounded in his fourth chapter wherein he laboureth to prove that the Church Catholicke visible is one Integral or Totum Integrale I Cannot enlarge as I would I shall therefore return a brief answer in these several conclusions following CONCLUSION I. To●um genericum existit in rerum natur● The general or Universal whole is really exis●ing in nature See the fifth Conclusion concerning the agreement between Genus Integrum This answers Mr Hudson his first Argument p. 78 79. CONCLUSION II. Totum gen●ricum h●bet partes extra partes See the first conclusion concerning the agreement of Genus and integrum This answers Mr Hudson his second argument p. 79. CONCLUSION III. Individual Christians which are not members of any particular congregation are not formally politicall Church members Visible saints are the matter of a visible Church and in that respect may be said to be members Materialiter but not formaliter because they are not confederate The woman of Canaan was a visible saint and beleever yet was not formally a member of the Iewish Church A proselyte was called filius foederis a son of the covenant A regenerate man excommunicated is no Political Church member The Apostles were members of the Church at Jerusalem Acts I. vers. 2 3 13 14 c. The Apostles had an extraordinary commission and influence into all Churches But this is not sufficient to demonstrate that all Churches made one integral This may serve to answer Mr Hudsons third Argument p. 79 80. CONCLUSION IIII. A Genus is capable of inherent Accidents See the third difference between Genus and Integrum A Church compacted according to the institution of Christ is visible beautifull terrible Boston Church is compacted according to the institution of Christ Therefore Boston Church is visible terrible beautiful By this manner of reasoning a genere ad speciem it is evidentil that those accidents to properties do firstly belong to the genus or to a church in genere and then to an individual Church as a species of that genus A genus is also capable of being majus and minus in actu exercito Mankind is capable of increase vertue shall increase at the calling of the Jewes If humility chastity justice faithfulness and contentation which are the species of vertue shall increase then vertue which is the genus shall increase when injustice abounds which is species peccati peccatum which is the genus abounds If the species be extended the genus is extended also Quicquid affirmatur negatur de specie etiam affirmatur negatur de genere particulariter That the genus may be mutable and fluxile we have heard See the first conclusion concerning the agreement of genus and integrum Genus also is measurable by time and place See conclusion fift concerning the agreement of genus and Integrum These may answer Mr Hudson his fourth Argument p. 80 81. CONCLUSION V. A genus may be capable of admission and ejection of parts See second Conclusion concerning species specialissima wherein we may find an answer to Mr Hudson his fifth Argume●t p. 81. 82. CONCLUSION VI A Genus may be capable of officers See conclusion second concerning species specialissima Every entire compleat Ecclesiastical society or Church is furnished with officers Boston congregation is a compleate intire Church or a compleate Ecclestiastical society Therefore Boston Church is furnished with officers This is part of an answer to Mr Hudson his sixth Argument p. 82. I shall add a word more to fill up the answer There are no habituall officers in the Church all officers in the Church are actuall officers Habitual officers are non Ens possibile quod non est sed potest esse Lawyers may in this sense be called habitual officers of the Church for they may officiate in a Church when they are called CONCLUSION VII The Church Catholike hath actions and operations of its own it is true that it exists and acts in its Individualls yet his properties are his owne and so likewise are his operations See the fourth difference between Genus and Integrum This answers his seventh Argument p. 82. CONCLUSION VIII The several Appellations which are given to the Church

the proper subject of the rules of Ecclesistical discipline and policie which is to be guided to its publick foelicity by the rules of divine policy as a Civil society is guided by the rules of Civil policy to i●s Civil happiness This was one piece of the misery of the Ephesians and other ●entiles before their calling they were not onely dead in sin children of wrath by nature c. for so were the Jewes but they were also without Christ as political head of the visible Church and aliens from the policie of Israel Ep● ● 12. The ground of it we find in the same place and that is they were strangers from the Covenants that is from the Church Covenant which is not only a Covenant between God and man but also between man and man and was often renued in the old Testament and for those reasons especially it is called Covenants in the plural number and from thence followed a double misery first that they were without those faire hopes and possibilities of the good things promised 2. And without the worship of God or ordinances of divine worship which the Jewes had being Church mem●ers PROPOSITION III. All the visible Churches of the Gospel which are the genuine Children of that primitive Church are political bodies Visibilis dicitur ecclesia propSohnius Scrip. ter ordinem ecclesiasticum ac formam exteriorem ac visibile● M●thod ●qua quidem fecit ut ecclesia sit et dicatur visibilis Sohnius PROPOSITION IV. The Catholike Visible Church is to be found in the Churches of the Gospel and in the dayes of Christ Before his exhibition there was a domestical Church and a national Church but no Catholike Church which is opposed to the Jewish Church The Church was first in families and then in populo and that was either in populo Israelitico or Catholico when the Son of God himself came into the world it was too light a business for him to raise up the Tribes of Israel but he must be a light to the Gentiles and salvation to the end of the earth He must haue his Honours and Royal Houses and keep his Court among all nations The Church is not confined to Iudea or limited to any part or corner of the earth but may be extended far and wide over all the world Therefore the Field is called the world PROPOSITION V. The name Catholike doth most properly agree to a generical Church to a church as the genus of al churches Integrum an integral whole or totum is called {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} bu●totumgenericum or genus is properly called {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} A generical whole is properly called catholike and universal genus and universale are all one and the same notion an integral church may be called a whole church or if you will a synholick church but not so properly a catholike church PROPOSITION VI A congregationall church is a catholike generical church the genus of all churches in the world A church or congregation is the Genus of all congregations and the several churches and individual congregations as Boston church Capel church Hartford church are the species of church in genere REASON I. That which comunicates his whole essen●e to Boston church Capel church and all individual churches is a catholike generical universal church and the genus of those individuals A congregational church communicates his whole essence to Boston church Capell church c Therefore a congregational church is a catholike generical universall church and the genus of these individuals The major is clear at the first sight if we consider the definition of genus which is totum partibus essentiale The genus is that which is essential i. e. that which communicats his whole essence consisting of matter form to his parts The minor is apparent for a congregational church communicates his whole essence his matter and form to Boston church and the whole essence of a vis●ble political congregational church is found in Boston church and in all true churches and faithful congregations of Christ There are visible saints which are the matter of a church we read of Saints at Rome Corinth c. and all churches are churches of the saints I Cor. 14. 33. these are the materials of this glorious Temple Saints are men separated from the world dedicated unto God This is the glory of a congregation to be of such glorious materials It is a pleasant sight to see churches filled with such men with men that know God and love God having derived a principle of life from Christ by faith All church members must be visible saints having a competent measure of knowledge and blameless life Mat. 5. 19. Rev. 22. 14. I. There is also a confaederation either explicite or implicite whereby church members stand bound to walk with God and one with another in the wayes of the worship of Christ according to the rules of divine policie An explicite covenant is not essential to a church because explicitness is but an adjunct of the covenant and because Christ hath had visible churches in all ages since the primitive church and yet an explicite covenant cannot be found in all ages yet it is to be desir●d and there is much of the visible glory of Christ appearing in it when men visibly bind themselves and their children also to Christ they cannot bind them to a better Master Isaiah 44. 5. All Iacobs Children were inrolled in the catologue of the church REASON II That totum which giveth his name to Boston Church Cap●l church and all individual churches is a catholike generical universal church and the genus of all those churches A congregational church giveth his name to Boston church Capel church and all individual churches Therefore a congregational church is a catholike universal church and the genus of all individual churches It is true which M Hudson speaks pag. 90. that every visible beleever is a christian and it is as true that a christian is a generical and Paul an individual christian and these are genus and species Every church member is a member of Christ his Kingdom because every church is a Kingdom of Christ We have proved that pars similaris is species and that aqua and ●aec aqua are genus and species and tha● it is the peculiar prerogative of the g●nus to communicate his name with his nature to his species Integrum cannot communicate his whole essence to every member for then there would be so many men in every man as there are fingers and toes and members in his body Therefore every finger and toe and member cannot be called by the name of a man The members of a man being essential to him make him a man but a man cannot communicate his whole humanity to all his members and make them so many men It is most just and meete therefore that a mans